The orbiter Discovery touches down on Runway 15 of KSC's Shuttle Landing
Facility to complete the STS-91 mission. Main gear touchdown was at
2:00:00 p.m. EDT on June 12, 1998, landing on orbit 155 of the mission.
The wheels stopped at 2:01:00 p.m. EDT, for a total mission-elapsed time
of 9 days, 19 hours, 55 minutes and 1 second. The 91st Shuttle mission
was the 44th KSC landing in the history of the Space Shuttle program and
the 15th consecutive landing at KSC. During the mission, the orbiter
docked with the Russian space station Mir for the ninth time, concluding
Phase I of the joint U.S.-Russian International Space Station Program.
STS-91 also featured first flights for both the Alpha Magnetic
Spectrometer and the Space Shuttle super lightweight external tank. The
STS-91 flight crew included Mission Commander Charles J. Precourt; Pilot
Dominic L. Gorie; and Mission Specialists Wendy B. Lawrence, Franklin
R. Chang-Diaz, Janet Lynn Kavandi and Valery Victorovitch Ryumin.
Astronaut Andrew S. W. Thomas also returned to Earth as an STS-91 crew
member after 140 days in space.
(Photo Release Date: 06/12/98
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